Satch Sullinger, the father of Boston Celtics second-year big man Jared Sullinger, and a consistent presence around the team last season, suggested in a recent interview with ABC6 in Columbus, Ohio that the team has promised to acquire a center this offseason in order to move his son back to his more natural power forward position. The 6-foot-9 Sullinger spent much of his sophomore season playing...
The NBA's draft combine appears to have lost a bit of its luster: Guard Andrew Wiggins has joined center Joel Embiid and forward Jabari Parker and decided not to participate in this week's NBA draft combine, sources told ESPN.com. Duke's Parker and Kansas' Wiggins and Embiid are considered the top three prospects in this year's draft. Kentucky forward Julius Randle and Australian guard Dante Exum...
Jared Sullinger's father, Satch, recently said that the Boston Celtics will look to acquire a center this offseason. This backs up Danny Ainge's previous comments saying that the team's top need is rim protection. Let's play connect the dots to find out what this means: In December, the Boston Celtics and the Houston Rockets discussed a potential trade that would've sent center Omer Asik to Boston...
The 2014 NBA Draft Combine starts next Wednesday and all of the top prospects will be there, including Andrew Wiggins, Jabari Parker, and Joel Embiid. The lottery isn't until May 20th, and the draft isn't until June 26th, but this is an important week for talent evaluators to find out more about players through workouts and interviews. Here at CelticsBlog, our passionate readers are waiting impatiently...
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Boston Celtics coach Brad Stevens is back at Butler University on Saturday to receive an honorary doctorate as part of the school's commencement ceremonies: Guess who is back at @butleru to receive an honorary degree? The legend himself. cc: @celtics @Marc_DAmico pic.twitter.com/Snfr8aUbrI— stlCupofJoe (@stlCupofJoe) May 10, 2014 ...
Do ya feel lucky? Well, do ya? The wizard of box scores himself Mike Zarren (Assistant General Manager of the Celtics ) gave us all the lottery combinations that could win the Celtics a top 3 pick. Why? Well, let's hear it from him. Inside The Numbers Draft Lottery: The Combos Celtics fans are by far the best fans in the league, but they’re also some of the craziest. Even though the ping-pong drawing...
Boston Celtics assistant general manager Mike Zarren, writing on the team's official website, revealed the 103 four-number combinations that would help the team vault to a top-3 position during this month's draft lottery. A glimpse at the numbers: Read all 103 number combinations on Celtics.com. ...
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Jerryd Bayless is an unrestricted free agent and will get some attention from NBA teams this summer in search of a back-up point guard. If the price is right, the Celtics would certainly love to keep him as he filled the departed Jordan Crawford/Courtney Lee role quite nicely, and provides the C's with some much needed 3-pt scoring. When the Celtics acquired Jerryd Bayless in the Courtney Lee trade...
Pick one. Today Draft Express updated their mock draft and for the first time they took team needs into account. Follow the link below to see the results but I'll spoil the suspense by telling you that they have the Celtics selecting Julius Randle at number 5 (behind the usual suspects, including Exum going at 4). Clearly this is Kevin O'Connor's worst nightmare, which he explained here . What was...
The NFL Draft begins Thursday night, but us hoops fans have to wait nearly two more weeks just to find out the lottery order on May 20. There's a whole month after that before the NBA's late-June pick-a-palooza. But if you want to get some early studying done (or just daydream about the Celtics landing a top pick), ESPN Insider finished its look at the draft's top players by position: The NBA Draft...
Have we finally found the backup point guard we've been looking for? Phil Pressey was undrafted. That has to be the starting point of his evaluation. He was overlooked and passed by. At 5'11" and 175 lbs. you can understand why he might have been missed. He's not a particularly good shooter and as the season got started he was buried on the bench behind several 2 guards masquerading as points....
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No doubt, Avery Bradley has evolved dramatically as a basketball player. He was once a young kid who could barely dribble the ball past half court, but he has now matured and is thriving as one of the most exciting two-way guards in the NBA. But Bradley is entering restricted free agency for the first time this summer and there is no guarantee that the Boston Celtics resign him. It's also unlikely...
Was Gerald Wallace perfect on the floor this season? Was he worth $10 million? No and no. But he was still a valuable member of the Celtics in a few ways, both tangible and not. When I start to think about Gerald Wallace and reflect upon his first season in Boston, I feel the need to address a larger issue that exists between pro athletes and their fans. It's something that applies to Wallace, yes,...
Boston Celtics president of basketball operations Danny Ainge finished seventh in voting for the league's executive of the year award. Ainge received five total votes, including a first-place vote, in balloting among his peers. League executives voted their top three choices. San Antonio Spurs general manager R.C. Buford won the award. Ainge's former assistant Ryan McDonough finished second in balloting...
Waive or wait? We've been over this a few times now, but since today is Gerald Wallace day in our Exit Interviews series, I thought I'd bring it up again. Gerald Wallace has two years left on his deal (at $10M a year) and is about as un-tradable a player as there is in the NBA. Of course there's no such thing as un-tradable as we've seen time and time again. But to make it happen, the Celtics would...
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Tonight, the latest chapter in a rivalry that has spanned six years, four teams, all types of dramatic fourth-quarter duels, all manners of grit-n-grind loose-ball dives, and at least one salacious May-December (rumored!) romance, opens. Tonight, the Brooklyn Nets face the Miami Heat in the Eastern Conference semifinals. And so tonight, once again (for the 26th time, to be exact), Paul Pierce and...